Glad I started growing some veg of my own recently. Still got a few litres of apple chutney I made from foraged apples last year, might go for acorn foraging this year, very high energy density compared to apples. Need to try new ways of cooking them though, thinking of cold processing them this time and store ground up, then add some of it with oats to make porridge.
Tried acorns before with hot processing them and they were just kinda bland. Not unpleasant, just not much to them. I am thinking of trying cold processing because that shouldn’t remove as much of the oils and might retain some more flavour. Does take a lot longer to remove the tannin that way though.
Wow. Guess we’ll starve maybe.
Glad I started growing some veg of my own recently. Still got a few litres of apple chutney I made from foraged apples last year, might go for acorn foraging this year, very high energy density compared to apples. Need to try new ways of cooking them though, thinking of cold processing them this time and store ground up, then add some of it with oats to make porridge.
Apples are your sugar and your fiber if you choose to use them that way.
Acorns… all I can think of is Sandra Lee’s Kwanza cake which one reviewer called an “edible hate crime.”
Tried acorns before with hot processing them and they were just kinda bland. Not unpleasant, just not much to them. I am thinking of trying cold processing because that shouldn’t remove as much of the oils and might retain some more flavour. Does take a lot longer to remove the tannin that way though.